which the broads also fund.
The AFT Innovation Fund recipients’ projects vary—including fresh ways to evaluate, pay and recruit teachers—but the thread running through all of them is collaboration. "This is bottom-up reform at its best,” Weingarten said.
http://www.aft.org/about/innovate/some of the "innovative" projects funded:
Education Austin will team up with Austin Interfaith to
establish schools where parents and community leaders are
full partners in running the schools and supporting the needs
of students and families. The project’s goal is to convert several
schools to “in-district” community charter schools, which
under Texas law are created through agreements reached
by the local school board and the majority of teachers and
parents at a school. The proposed charter schools would be
developed in cooperation with Austin Interfaith...
The Hillsborough Classroom Teac hers Association
in Tampa, Fla., will use its grant from the AFT Innovation
Fund to create online tools to help teachers navigate, respond
to and shape major changes under way in the district. These
changes are a result of the $205 million “Empowering Effective
Teachers” project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
which will redesign teachers’ evaluation, pay and career
opportunities over the next seven years...
The Minnea polis Fe deration of Teac hers’ proposal to
the AFT Innovation Fund grows out of members’ long-standing
desire to have a greater voice in their schools. The union’s
proposal is grounded in the notion of reclaiming charter
schools as they were once intended to be: as laboratories for
innovation where teachers play a central role in designing
and running the schools. The grant will allow the union to set
up a nonprofit affiliate that will apply to the state of Minnesota
to become an authorizer of charter schools. If successful,
this would mark the first time that a union has been a charter
school authorizer.
(I think this is dubious because it constitutes an extension of charters & gets the union invested in the extension of charters - which can be "deunionized" at some point in the future)
The Toledo Fe deration of Teac hers will create a pilot
performance-pay program that sets teaching standards that
surpass those of the Ohio Department of Education.
The Volusia Teac hers Organization in Daytona Beach,
Fla., will receive an AFT Innovation Fund grant to determine
fair and accurate ways to use evidence of student learning in
a teacher development and evaluation system.
http://www.aft.org/pdfs/about/IFgrantees2010.pdfabout half the projects funded appear to be directly furthering the gates/broad agenda.
and members' union dues are also supporting this crap.
you're paying to destroy your own profession.
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